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Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2013 - Coordinated, Complete Control.
Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2013 project review software supports intelligent 3D model-based designs with advanced scheduling and visualization capabilities. Autodesk Navisworks project review software products help architecture, engineering, and construction professionals gain control over project outcomes. Integrate, share, and review 3D models and multi-format data with all your project stakeholders. A robust set of integration, analysis, and communication tools helps teams better coordinate disciplines, resolve conflicts, and plan projects before construction or renovation begins.
· Supports the creation of a single, coordinated model to facilitate collaboration, encouraging shared learning and helping to provide a platform for interdisciplinary workflows.
· Comprehensive schedule, cost, animation, and visualization capabilities enable you to demonstrate design intent and simulate construction, promoting insight and predictability.
· Provides a comprehensive range of markup, review, and commenting tools to support collaboration among all design disciplines.
· Offers comprehensive API and data integration tools to help deliver a visual portal for easy and intuitive access to project data.
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Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2013 New Enhancements
Improved Revit Interoperability
Interoperability enhancements help to increase your productivity when working with Autodesk® Revit® software products and Navisworks.
· Read native .RVT files directly within Navisworks and utilize the Navisworks Batch Utility automation toolset.
· Organize model components using the Revit hierarchy of Category, Family, Type, and Instance.
· Import Revit gridlines and levels into Navisworks when you visualize and analyze your projects.
Timeliner Enhancements
Gain greater control and flexibility when working with 5D simulations.
· Add cost data to your project schedule to simulate, visualize, and better understand accumulated costs during construction.
· Drag and drop objects and selection sets onto your schedule to quickly and easily create associations between the model and tasks.
· Add and edit parent and child tasks in the TimeLiner hierarchy for greater flexibility when creating and maintaining your project schedule.
· Export to ProjectXML to support interoperability with common scheduling applications, such as Primavera and Microsoft® Project software.
New Grid and Level Support
Use grids and levels imported from your design application to visualize, analyze, and coordinate your project.
· Import multiple grids and levels from Revit software products and select the grid system you want to use for your review session.
· Use the grid navigation and orientation toolset when undertaking real-time walk-throughs of models.
· Sort, group, and report clashes found during coordination by grid location and level.
Additional Construction Project Review Enhancements
· Use the new Selection Inspector to quickly list, report, and export selected objects and properties you define.
· Enhanced integration with Autodesk® Vault software for project data management, including Vault project browser, extended file format support, advanced search, and document status.
· Additional features in Navisworks Freedom include sectioning and embedded Datatools properties.
· Autodesk RapidRT rendering and improved Autodesk Consistent Materials support.
Better File Interoperability
Autodesk Navisworks 2013 software supports complimentary Autodesk® 2013 applications and the following third-party applications:
· Siemens NX
· Dassault Systèmes CATIA®
· Dassault Systemes Solidworks®
· Graphisoft® ArchiCAD® 14, 15
· Faro® 4.8
· Oracle® Primavera P6 v8
· Asta Powerproject 12
· Microsoft Project 2010
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Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2013 Features
Model File & Data Aggregation
Autodesk Navisworks products for project management, model aggregation, and model publishing enable you to combine design, construction, and other project data into a single integrated project model.
· Incorporate files in many major 2D & 3D design or laser scan file formats.
· Integrate all project models, even the largest data sets.
· Read intelligent data from original design files and view it beside the model.
· Import live data from external databases and display it within the model.
Review Toolkit
The review toolkit offers a host of tools that facilitate whole-project review.
· Measure distances, areas, and angles.
· Store, organize, and share camera views of a design and export them into images or reports.
· Add cross sections and section plans to inspect details closely.
· Use NWF reference files to view the latest version of a CAD design while maintaining previous review data.
· Open current model and viewpoint in many original design software packages.
· Automate tasks or extend functionality using extensive APIs (application programming interface).
NWD & 3D DWF Publishing
Publish your entire project for a whole-project view.
· Publish and store complete project models in a single distributable NWD or DWF™ file.
· Embed or exclude object properties.
· Compress file size by up to 90 percent, compared to original design files.
· Help to secure files with password encryption, time expiration, and read-only format.
· Include all authorship and copyright details in files.
· Store all review data with the model.
· Enable viewing of NWD models from a web browser or within Microsoft® Office documents and presentations via ActiveX® control.
· Use the free* Navisworks Freedom viewer to open any NWD model.
NWD and DWF 2D and model publishing capabilities are available in Navisworks Manage and Navisworks Simulate
Collaboration Toolkit
Communicate design intent and encourage teamwork with help from the collaboration toolkit.
· Add markups to viewpoints with advanced redlining tools.
· Comment on viewpoints with searchable notes, and include a date-stamped audit trail.
· Record animated walk-throughs for real-time playback, or export as AVI files.
· Stream large models and content from a disk or the Internet, navigating the design as the model loads.
Photorealistic Visualization
Autodesk Navisworks project scheduling software products enable you to develop compelling 3D animations and imagery for project presentations.
· Customize and configure every render aspect, including materials, lights, backgrounds, and rendering styles.
· Use environmental backgrounds to add real-world scenery.
· Choose from more than 1,000 built-in materials to create a photorealistic look.
· Add rich photorealistic content (RPC), such as people and trees, to scenes.
· Add smooth shadows and natural lighting with HDRI lighting.
· Use real-time shaders that support the OpenGL® 2.0 shader language for real-time lighting and shadows.
· Create believable nighttime imagery with light-scattering effects.
· Create your own transparent materials with support for PNG files with transparency.
Object Animation
Animate and interact with models for better design simulation.
· Create animations showing object movement, operation, assembly, and disassembly.
· Create interaction scripts that link animations to specific events, triggers, or key commands.
· Link object animations to tasks in a 5D schedule.
· Include animated objects in a clash detection and interference analysis.
5D Scheduling
Simulate construction schedules and logistics in 5D to help visually communicate and analyze project activities and minimize delays and sequencing problems.
· Verify building or demolition viability by developing construction or demolition sequences that link model geometry to times and dates.
· Import times, dates, costs, and other task data from project management software to dynamically link schedules with project models.
· Set up planned and actual times to visualize deviations from the project schedule.
· Export 5D simulations as AVI animations or sequential images.
· Customize simulation behavior and overlay text.
· Use CSV Import/Export for 2-way interoperability with other applications.
· Copy and paste dates from spreadsheets and specialist planning tools.
· Use tools to associate geometry and tasks quickly and easily.
Real-Time Navigation
Autodesk Navisworks products enable you to explore your integrated project model using advanced navigation tools.
· Enable gravity, solid-object recognition, and customizable third-person avatars for a more realistic, real-time experience.
· Use comprehensive navigation tools, including Walk, Look Around, Zoom, Zoom Box, Pan, Orbit, Examine, Fly, and Turntable.
· Access the Autodesk® ViewCube® and Autodesk® SteeringWheels® 3D navigation widgets and the navigation bar for a consistent user experience across Autodesk® applications.
Whole-Team Project Review
Extend the whole-project view to all project stakeholders, improving communication and collaboration.
· View all simulations and output saved in 3D DWF™ and NWD formats.
· See model hierarchy, object properties, and embedded review data, including viewpoints, animations, redlines, and comments.
